In German this is „Lang nicht gesehen“, i.e. short for “haven’t seen (each other in a) long (time)”Colloquially, after hol etc. the singular is used. But that means “few eyes”. Is that what you want to say?

A "story" isn't a time frame and yol means short (of time), if I am not mistaken.

Pawl used pup like in:Vospxì Ayol, Postì Apup - Short Post for a Short Month

But that's exactly it, isn't it? The post is a physical (if digital) thing. A month is a length of time. Because the Na'vi don't have a written language, how would they consider their stories? Oral, because everything is oral, or would they have comparable cave paintings to base yol vs. pup? I'm confused. @[email protected]

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In both examples it is meant the time: one lenght of time [yola krr] and time of flight [sätswayon ayol].If you say, "tell me the short story", you expect to hear a short (less amount of words) story which, of course, consume less time, even because the short story will be spoken.

But that's exactly it, isn't it? The post is a physical (if digital) thing. A month is a length of time. Because the Na'vi don't have a written language, how would they consider their stories? Oral, because everything is oral, or would they have comparable cave paintings to base yol vs. pup? I'm confused. @[email protected]

I’d agree with you. Don’t be confused.This is actually something where I’d see that Na’vi can make a distinction. If you mean a written story you can use pup (meaning the space that it takes up on the page), if you mean a spoken story you can use yol (meaning the time it took to tell).

So, vurit sleyk(iv) yol is more correct in a spoken context.On the other hand, taking up Tìtstewan’s example with peng, I’d say we would have to use yol because one cannot tell a story ‘physically long’, right?

NB: Mind you, the other way around is something that I remember there was a long discussion in one of the LEP submissions for a separate adjective meaning “long (of time)” which, tì’efumì oeyä, we already have in txan. The thing is whether everyone would immediately understand vur lamu txan as “the story was long” … to avoid confusion I’d render this as vur krrnamekx nìtxan, “the story took much time.” But that’s probably off-topic here.

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